Hesychius of Alexandria: Quick Facts

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Flourished	c.401 - c.500

Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis

Greek linguist

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Alexandre de Rhodes

French missionary

Adoniram Judson

American missionary

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

David Kimhi

European scholar

Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange

French scholar

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Serbian language scholar

Ibn Janāḥ

Spanish-Jewish grammarian

Sir George Abraham Grierson

Irish linguist

Kazimieras Būga

Lithuanian linguist

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic linguist

Ivar Aasen

Norwegian scholar

H.A. Giles

British scholar

Otto von Böhtlingk

Russian linguist

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke

Swiss-German linguist

Hans Kurath

American linguist